DdCno1
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- Comment on Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive 2 days ago:
I wonder if this would make swapping in assets from the Xbox remaster of Conker possible/convenient. I suspect it depends more on how accessible the files of the remaster are.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 5 days ago:
I’m the kind of person who reads the source code of software I’m using at least some of the time (and modifies it on occasion), but I’m no genius and not qualified to notice a well-hidden backdoor or potentially fatal software bug - let alone issues with the design, construction or implantation of the hardware. I would never ever trust a brain implant or any device that interfaces directly with my brain.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 6 days ago:
Does this look like ending three years ago?
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 week ago:
So many Indie developers are making the mistake of thinking they’ll be the next [insert currently successful one-man dev here] and banking their careers and life savings on it. 99.999% of them are not.
- Comment on Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others 1 week ago:
Arkane Austin was hemorrhaging talent before and during Redfalls development. In the end, there wasn’t much left of the studio that had developed the Prey reboot. Hi Fi Rush and Evil Within are critical darlings, but the former only got its player base thanks to Game Pass and both didn’t sell enough to keep a studio of more than 130 people alive (for perspective, that’s about as many people as worked on Skyrim).
I get how sad it is to see these studios disappear and it’s of course devastating for individual employees (at least in the short term), but it isn’t all that surprising. Also keep in mind that the talent doesn’t evaporate into thin air. We as players should pay far more attention to game credits and individual developers than the studios these people are working for. Talented developers are very likely to reappear elsewhere and continue making great games.
I think the blame for the demise of these studios is at least equally shared between Zenimax, Microsoft and the studios themselves. Blaming it all on Microsoft is a bit simplistic.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 1 week ago:
I’ve seen far more convincing deepfakes, to the point I couldn’t tell until I was told. I’ve experimented with this myself. After a bit of trial and error, almost anyone can easily create shockingly convincing deepfakes. One interesting method is using 3D rendered characters with deepfake faces.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 2 weeks ago:
Both of you need to read up on the phenomenon called hallucination.
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 2 weeks ago:
What kind of economic system does the author of this book propose?
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 2 weeks ago:
Less worse.
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 2 weeks ago:
You are free to invent a better system. So far, nobody has.
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about you, but I started to notice that not everything that was printed on paper was truthful when I was around ten or eleven years old.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 weeks ago:
Have you met the people of the land?
- Comment on Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck] 3 weeks ago:
Backwards compatibility is great though. It’s the most convenient way of playing console exclusives from the 360 generation in particular, especially those that run at higher resolutions now.
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io 3 weeks ago:
I’m usually accused of questioning things too much and overdoing it, so I’m not sure what to make of your attempt at trying to insult me.
I also find it peculiar that none of you decided to actually read the page and the many individual pieces of evidence that support the claim that this supposed aid organization has fundamental issues, but instead shoot the messenger (either me or NGO Watch).
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io 3 weeks ago:
It’s very disappointing to see this site funnel funds towards a highly questionable organization with close ties to Hamas and other terrorist organizations:
- Comment on The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store 3 weeks ago:
How did you solve the issue of adblocking?
- Comment on The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, about that:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/…/581680/
theguardian.com/…/apple-user-data-law-enforcement…
www.theregister.com/…/apple_apps_privacy_study/
The correct choice would have been a custom ROM for an Android smartphone, without any Google apps and services.
- Comment on All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics - YouTube 4 weeks ago:
Always check the source. This is Boston Dynamics’ YouTube channel - and they are not in the business of faking things.
- Comment on All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics - YouTube 4 weeks ago:
It was kind of inevitable that sooner or later, their impressive robots would fall deep into the uncanny valley. I suspect they knew this particular aspect about the new Atlas robot would be the most controversial, which is why they posted it separately to judge reactions and for it not to distract from the main video showing its other capabilities later on.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
This is an economic model known most commonly as feudalism.
Hahaha, that’s not how feudalism works at all. You are twisting yourself backwards through your legs to come up with some kind of nonsense that makes Stalin not far-left. It’s hilarious.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
He was inspired by Stalinist practices, but as shown by this example and many others, far-left and far-right autocrats are very similar in this regard.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th 4 weeks ago:
If you’re interested in an Eastern European take on Bioshock/Half Life, try the Metro series instead, if you haven’t already.
If you want to play an equally fascinating and highly flawed Eurojank shooter that is actually endearing, play You Are Empty. It’s only available as abandonware and needs some tweaks to work on modern systems:
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
An alt-right LLM (large language model). Think of it as a crappy Nazi alternative to the text part of GPT-4 (there’s also a separate text-to-image component). It’s probably just a reskinned existing language model that had Mein Kampf, The Turner Diaries and Stormfront added to its training data.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th 4 weeks ago:
It’s clunky, but not in an indearing eurojank way. Absolutely repulsive writing doesn’t help. I wouldn’t recommend it.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning 4 weeks ago:
It’s not even that quality mods need fake voice acting. There’s a vibrant modding scene surrounding the Gothic series - and several modders managed to convince the original German voice actors to lend their voices.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning 4 weeks ago:
The only way to limit the damage is the tedious old-fashioned way: An honest debate, thorough public education, followed by laws and regulations, which are backed up by international treaties. This takes a long time however, the tech is evolving very quickly, too quickly, self-regulation isn’t working and there are lots of bad actors, from pervy individuals to certain nation states (the likes of Russia, Iran and China have used generative AI to manipulate public opinion) which need to be contained.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning 4 weeks ago:
This problem cannot be solved by tools, because you can use these tools to make AI-generated content more realistic (adversarial training).
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
I should add that it wasn’t the norm back then either.
What’s kind of funny is that all of the debates around these systems are exactly the same today as back then, like for example that you should use the voting system to reward quality comments, not use it as an agree/disagree button.
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- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
I’ve used forums that had these things 20 years ago. This isn’t new.